Shelf Life with the bacon: when I use precooked bacon in a meal in a jar recipe I figure that the shelf life can only be as long as the ingredient with the shortest shelf life. In this case the bacon, which is 1 year.

Shelf Life with out the bacon: 5 years. You could just add bacon as you are cooking.

Bacon TVP. You could substitute Bacon TVP (think bacos) instead of the precooked bacon, I haven’t tried it (we try to avoid soy) but it would give
you a longer shelf life then the bacon.

Potato Soup

½ cup Thrive
Béchamel Powder

½ cup Sour
Cream powder

¼ cup freeze
dried celery

¼ cup freeze
dried onion

1 ½ cup freeze
dried potato dices

¼ cup precooked
crumbled bacon (this shortens the shelf life, leave it out if you want a longer
shelf life)